@ShadowWizard That box looks like it could easily hold a half dozen jars of the instant coffee that I buy ( not the same as you get) and it would cost less than $40 for a 6 months supply - and I drink over 2 dozen cups per day. 🌩️🏃🌩️

That's great to have. In North America many unlimited data plans are quite limited, costing 3 arms, 4 kidneys and a leg. A couple of places have limited for less but then they throttle you. I rely heavily on Wifi, my phone says that I've used 50GB in the last month.

Checking my phone's specs it says: "Galaxy S9+ uses Qualcomm's X20 modem, which is capable of supporting download speeds up to 1.2 Gbps." So if I hit the wrong link I could be completely hosed in a minute and a half.

It's a case of where your bank account catches on fire then in less than an hour your phone does too (they block you until you phone and confirm it's OK) then at the end of the month the bill comes and you're dying just looking at it.

The best, the best, is if you're a good customer and you rack up a huge bill the day before the billing period ends, and they unblock you, then it gets continued on the next month. One person discovered how "call forwarding" works. They enabled CF and then got on a plane, all call forwarding was long distance overseas.

There's no doubling for less here, the towers are saturated - if you won't pay don't use it and they'll sell your share easily enough to someone else. It's not like Fiber Optics were there's overcapacity, every tall structure is an antenna farm, with no room for more antennae.

Plus other things use data, like railway crossing gates and police tower cams, though sometimes they have their own dish and cell data is just a backup. All that adds to tower capacity load, preventing prices from dropping. So I use Wifi.

I left for where I was for another job paying over 5x as much - then dot-com, then everything went overseas and wages nosedived, so I left tech. Today computers are so inexpensive that a week's pay can buy one, or a month's pay if you want bleeding edge.

I had stability at the old place, because I was irreplaceable - 6 months after I left they tanked.

Some places are what I call "Advertising Companies" - they are always advertising for employees, due to the turnover. That eats up the potential for profit and growth, it buries the place. If they bought the land or have deep pockets they might stay open, otherwise they close when the lease is up or they get bought out (to settle a lawsuit with a customer whom didn't want untrained employees doing the work incorrectly and late).

That's actually a business model, if you don't know how to run a business.

Well, it is not really efficient, but gives some reps (tried two days ago, only 41 reps :-) ).
I have, for example, 50 question where I had accepted answers. And 101 reps, because each accept gives you 2 reps.
Then I offer 100 rep bounty (or lose this rep by some other way, e.g. downvotes), unac...

There was a thread on 4chan where some dude was dropping acid for the first time and was asking what to expect (they had already used a blotter), so people started posting close-up images of the faces of large spiders.

@JourneymanGeek How would I know I was going to be kicked? I used s/****/rude person/ as shorthand to say "OK, what I meant to say was 'wow, what a rude person'", because using the word **** is apparently too offensive.

Note that often when a Nazi account is destroyed, there is completely coincidentally a picture posted in our Time Machine chat by a moderator showing a Nazi being punched. We here at H.SE don't as a rule like to discuss user disciplinary action in public, so of course these two things are unrelated, and it is just a really weird coincidence. — T.E.D. ♦16 hours ago